Safari in iOS 27 and macOS 27 will reportedly copy a handy Google Chrome feature to better manage your open tabs. It will build on the Tab Groups feature to organize similar open tabs into groups automatically.
Apple will apparently also provide a manual way to open tabs into groups.
iOS 27 may introduce Smarter tab grouping in Safari
Safari gained Tab Groups with iOS 15 and macOS Catalina back in 2021. It provides a quick way to organize your open tabs into personal or work groups. The feature has received little attention from Apple since its debut.
By comparison, Google Chrome’s Tab Groups feature has only become smarter over time. Apple will seemingly bring similar improvements to Safari‘s Tab Groups with iOS 27 later this year.
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that Safari in iOS 27 should automatically organize similar open tabs into groups.
“I’m told that in test versions of iOS 27, the center-top button that users can tap to move between their tab groups has a new option called “Organize Tabs.” You can choose whether you want the grouping to occur automatically or not,” says Gurman in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter.
If the automatic tab grouping feature is selected, Safari will apparently show a “tabs will group into topics you browse” message.
The report says that the feature isn’t a part of Apple Intelligence. However, Apple will likely use AI to identify similar tabs and group them.
Smarter tab grouping in Safari will be a part of iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27.
iOS 27 should focus on fixing the annoyances
Apple should introduce more improvements to Safari as part of its next major OS release, including performance and stability improvements.
Based on leaks and rumors so far, Apple seems set to focus on usability improvements in iOS 27 this year. As part of this effort, it will tweak Liquid Glass to improve readability. It will also fix some minor UI annoyances.
Rajesh has been writing about consumer technology for over a decade, with a strong focus on iPhones, Macs and Apple’s ecosystem. He enjoys digging into Apple software updates, hardware changes, and discovering new Mac apps that make work faster and more enjoyable.
